Yahoo Lifestyle Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Teams With Mechanical Cake On Original Graphic Novel Series ‘Modville’, ‘Hyde’ & ‘Nick’
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free and Mechanical Cake have partnered together for the launch of three original graphic novel series: Modville, Hyde, and Nick. Sources say Ridley Scott will be heavily involved, lending his meticulous eye and unmatched world-building skills to the projects.
“Mechanical Cake is a terrific company,” Scott said. “They understand the art of graphic novels. As an artist and painter, these projects are exciting to me, and I look forward to collaborating with Jesse, Tom, Dave, and the Mechanical Cake team.”
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Tom Moran, Senior VP Development & Production at Scott Free, will oversee for the company along with Mechanical cake.
“Ridley and Tony Scott are known as great filmmakers (Alien, Blade Runner, Top Gun, True Romance), but few people realize their shared first true love of painting and art is what drove both of them into filmmaking,” said Moran. “For the first time in Scott Free’s history, we are excitedly diving into comics as a new way to explore art and storytelling.”
Mechanical Cake has engaged comic book legend Dave Elliott, co-founder of Radical Comics, as Editor-in-Chief and enlisted top-tier artists Bill Sienkiewicz, Chris Watson, Dan Panosian, Brian Rood, Hendry Prasetya and Eko Puteh.
Modville is a sci-fi/southern gothic crime drama involving AI humans (“mods”) in future New Orleans. Hyde imagines a world where Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Mr. Hyde” did not die and instead lives beneath the streets of London, where he conducts experiments on others. Nick is a foundational yule war story, steeped within the arcane Norse legends.
Modville Book 1 of 8, drawn by Hendry Prasetya and Eko Puteh, is complete and will be available for pre-order in March, along with first-issue previews of Hyde and Nick. A sneak peek at all three projects is available here.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Mechanical Cake, is a production company formed by CEO Jesse Negron and COO Tom Sanders in 2015 to pursue the creation, acquisition and development of breakthrough intellectual properties. Its mission is, “Don’t worry about pleasing any of the people any of the time.”
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